Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people presented at A&E who were subsequently diagnosed as suffering from lung cancer in (a) the Nottingham area and (b) the UK in the last 12 months.

The information is not available in the format requested. However, the National Cancer Intelligence Network produces estimates of emergency cancer admissions broken down by cancer type and clinical commissioning group which is available at:

http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v107/n8/full/bjc2012408a.html